Vacant commercial facilities are an increasing concern in many developed countries. Despitethe low occupancy rates in existing facilities, new commercial facilities that betteraccommodate the needs of modern end-users are constantly developed. In addition to financialconcerns, under-utilized spaces are a great environmental burden, as buildings account forapproximately one third of the global ener

The healthcare industry is facing various challenges due to global megatrends, such as increasing average life expectancy, ageing population, technological advancements, urbanization and globalization. Currently, outdated hospital facilities are being thoroughly renovated in large and costly projects to meet contemporary operational requirements. Renovation work in hospital environments is particu

Den globala flyktingkrisen ställer Sverige inför en svårhanterlig politisk och moralisk fråga. Vilka skyldigheter har vi mot människor på flykt, och finns det en gräns för hur många flyktingar vi kan ta emot? I den politiska debatten går det att skönja att mycket grundläggande normativa föreställningar står mot varandra. En dragkamp mellan å ena sidan en partikularistisk etik och en nationell syn The refugee crisis of 2015 forced Sweden and its citizens to face a politically and morally difficult question. What obligations do we have toward people seeking refuge? In the public debate it is easy to discern two camps expressing opposing and deeply held moral beliefs. A struggle between on the one hand a primarily national outlook and particularistic ethic in which the interests and identitie

Over the past few years, environmental sustainability as a whole has gained significantly more attention globally, and the connection between sustainability and the built environment has been made clear. The built environment is now more widely known to have major implications on both climate change, and resource use. This study draws on a previous study, which identified environmental pressure as

The purpose of this study is to understand how multiple actors from the same business sector perceive operating on a campus setting. The main focus is on the relationships between tenants on-campus, as well as on identifying potential derived from the location on-campus. The study is a qualitative case study of two health and wellbeing campuses in Finland. The cases share some key characteristics,

The article seeks to further our understanding of the process of organizing nascent social ventures. It builds upon current research on the political and collaborative nature of the social entrepreneurial process, and takes an ANT-inspired processual approach to follow the organizational practices carried by a nascent social venture in its efforts to mobilize stakeholders, bring about collaboratio

Over the past few decades, lean management philosophies have penetrated various sectors of industry. At same time, dynamic environmental, or green, management is needed to succeed in the current green conscious market. Some research has already been conducted on the potential synergy gains of the two management philosophies, since both are known to strive towards efficient use of resources, elimin

Under senare år har betydande framsteg gjorts inom området för artificiell intelligens (AI) och i synnerhet inom ramen för maskininlärning (ML). Det här kapitlet tecknar några av de rättsliga och samhälleliga utmaningar som användandet av AI och ML medför, i termer av "normativ design", samhällelig bias i autonoma och algoritmiska system, svårigheter med ansvarsfördelning och behovet av att nyanse

A new numerical model was developed to simulate regional sediment transport, shoreline response in the vicinity of tidal inlets, and inlet shoal volume growth based on the one-line model of shoreline change combined with the reservoir concept for volumetric evolution of inlet shoals. Sand bypassing onshore and sheltering effects on wave action from the inlet bar and shoals were taken into account.

The built environment accounts for 40% of the totalenergy consumption and CO2 emissions in Europe.Furthermore, the majority of environmental impacts ofproperties are generated during the operation phase of thebuilding. Increasing energy efficiency through energymanagement could offer an effective solution to managing theCO2 emissions of a building through its life cycle. Buildingautomation systems

The study estimates greenhouse gases generated bysuburban housing companies with the use of a hybrid LCAmodel where IO-LCA methodology is used together withprocess data. The aim of the research was to learn whichactivities associated with housing companies generate mostgreenhouse gases, as well as by whom the emissions could bediminished. In addition, the applicability of hybrid life cycleassessme

Background and Purpose-Hematoma volume is an important determinant of clinical outcome in spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). We performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of hematoma volume with the aim of identifying novel biological pathways involved in the pathophysiology of primary brain injury in ICH. Methods-We conducted a 2-stage (discovery and replication) case-only genome-w

With the increasing focus on reducing emissions and making fuel efficient vehicles within the automotive industry over the past few years, new methods are constantly being investigated to improve the efficiency of the powertrain. One such method is recovering waste heat from the exhaust gases as well as the coolant using a thermodynamic cycle such as a Rankine cycle. However, most studies looking

The aim of this study was to explore the usefulness of research circle methodology in the later stages of the research process. In an active collaboration with the researchers, participants, that is, users of research, discussed and prioritized research on home and health dynamics. Reflections, comments, and evaluations from both leaders and users were analyzed, applying content analysis. The usef

Background: The voices of those who have grown up in a family with maternal intellectual or developmental disability (IDD) are valuable for gaining an understanding of their situation, which is essential in order to be able to support these families and avoid potentially detrimental situations. Aim: The study aim was to describe the experience of having grown up in a family where the mother has an

Optimization problems with rank constraints appear in many diverse fields such as control, machine learning, and image analysis. Since the rank constraint is nonconvex, these problems are often approximately solved via convex relaxations. Nuclear norm regularization is the prevailing convexifying technique for dealing with these types of problem. This paper introduces a family of low-rank inducing

The charge cooling effect of methanol was studied and compared to that of iso-octane. The reduction in compression work due to fuel evaporation and the gain in expansion work were evaluated by the means of in-cylinder pressure measurements in a HD CI engine. A single injection strategy was utilized to obtain a longer premixing period to adequately capture the cooling effect. The effect was clear f

Over twenty years since the formal end of apartheid, South Africa's (largely black) government faces opposition from (largely white) communities over mineral resources that lie beneath the land. A powerful group of environmentalists, lawyers, and landowners have successfully prevented hydraulic fracturing, or ‘fracking’, of the trillions of cubic feet of natural gas believed to lie beneath the vas